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Re: Bug#687001: ITP: optional-dev -- fake (empty) dev package



Guillem Jover dixit:

>then some of the cases this tries to address (the “optional” nature of
>dependencies for derivatives for example) would get covered by my
>build-profiles proposal in #661538, which as stated there might need

Yes, please! Besides bootstrapping, use cases do include derived
distributions, such as no SELinux in Univention 2.x (FSVO x which
are not current) which jupp depended on as it can make use of it,
or mksh losing dietlibc-dev in *buntu since move from universe to
main, thus requiring a one-line change for every upload…

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't
wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh


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